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rabbet

[rab-it] / ˈræb ɪt /










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The keel is 14 in. deep, the part below the rabbet of the garboard or lowest strakes of the planking, being 11 in. deep, and 4½ in. thick at the bottom.

From Ancient and Modern Ships. Part 1. Wooden Sailing Ships by George C. V. Holmes

The carpenter's dependence on this tool lessened only after the perfection of multipurpose metallic planes that could be readily converted to cut a "rabbet."

From Woodworking Tools 1600-1900 by Peter C. Welsh

It also fits into a rabbet on the upper back side of the shelf.

From Handwork in Wood by William Noyes

Fig. 266-27 Dado tongue and rabbet No. 28.

From Handwork in Wood by William Noyes

A rabbet is made for the reception of the glass, and four strips of strap iron, overlapping both the glass, and the wood, and screwed to the wood, keep the glass in position.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 365, December 30, 1882 by Various

With the studs rabbeted at the mill, the carpenter work is reduced to the simple task of sawing the boards and struts to length.

From Concrete Construction Methods and Costs by Halbert Powers Gillette

In a mortise-and-tenon joint on rabbeted pieces, Fig.

From Handwork in Wood by William Noyes

The glass was135 set in rabbeted edges and held in place by putty according to the method still in use.

From The Colonial Architecture of Philadelphia by Frank Cousins

Where caulking is not used, the butts or joints of the planks are sometimes rabbeted, and fayed close, whence they are thus denominated.

From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Sir Edward Belcher

The end rails should be cut to length and their tenons worked after one edge of each has been rabbeted as were the posts.

From Mission Furniture How to Make It, Part 2 by H. H. (Henry Haven) Windsor

"All you need is one reasonably respectable wife," says Public Relations Wizard Gig Young, rabbeting in a plot gimmick designed to keep a flapdoodle comedy from collapsing in the first reel.

From Time Magazine Archive

In place of matching heads, heads for beading, rabbeting, or fancy siding may then be used.

From Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II by Joshua Rose

These included "Planing, moulding, rabbeting, grooving, mortising, and sawing, both in coarse and fine work, in curved, winding, and transverse directions, and shaping wood in complicated forms."

From Inventions in the Century by William Henry Doolittle

A ledge and miter or lipped miter joint is made by rabbeting and mitering the boards to be joined so that the outer portion of the two boards meet in a miter.

From Handwork in Wood by William Noyes

In cutting the rebate the easiest way is to use a rabbeting plane and cut the full length of the pieces.

From Mission Furniture How to Make It, Part 2 by H. H. (Henry Haven) Windsor


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